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IRRT Papers and Projects Session -Call for Papers for 2026 Annual Conference

noreply@blogger.com (Joan Weeks) — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:13:00 +0000

The International Relations Round Table's International Papers and Projects Committee is seeking proposals for its 2026 ALA Annual Conference session, "One World, Many Libraries: Global Visions for A.I. and Future-Forward Technologies."

This program is a one-hour panel discussion featuring librarians engaged in global research projects, programming, and training on artificial intelligence (A.I.) and emerging technologies. The panelists will examine how these tools are reshaping library services, while sharing their efforts to develop ethical and effective best practices for libraries and information organizations worldwide.

We are especially interested in proposals on:

A.I. and Digital Literacy
ChatGPT
Collection Development and Analysis Tools
Ethics and Legal Issues
Integration into Library Services
Machine Learning and Language Models
Misinformation and Bias
Research and Learning
Technical Services and Cataloging

Panelists will each have 10 minutes to share their stories. There will be time at the end of the panel discussion for questions and comments from the audience.

Proposals should be between 250 and 300 words; and include your name, email address, institution/affiliation, job title, and a 3–4-line biography. Proposals should be submitted via the proposal form .

Proposal Deadline: Monday, February 16, 2026

Notification of Acceptance: March 9, 2026

For more information, please contact the committee chairs:

Safi Safiullah - safi1453[@]gmail.com

Simone Clunie – clunie999[@]gmail.com

noreply@blogger.com (Whitney Bevill) — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:38:00 +0000

The newest edition of International Leads is out! We have lots of information for our readers this quarter. We hear from a Panamanian librarian about his time in American libraries. In Ukraine, a book drive helped librarians establish Little Free Libraries. We hear about Korea and the Korean delegation to IFLA, and Julia Gelfand being awarded the John Ames Humphry/OCLC/Forest Press Award for International Librarianship. Have you considered joining an interest group? We have more information on that and the $75 x 75 years campaign. Finally, we remember Professor Pat Oyler and hear from one of her former students in Vietnam. Happy reading!

ALA 2023 Annual International Papers & Projects Session

noreply@blogger.com (Joan Weeks) — Sat, 20 May 2023 18:13:00 +0000

Finding a New Normal: Library Policies and Practices
Saturday, June 24, 2023
11:00 - 12:00 CDT
McCormick Place, W179 A/B

International presentations include:

Teaching Library Management in a Post-COVID World Catherine Barnes, University of South Australia, Australia
Changing Practices to the Pandemic’s Impact: Actions and Reflections of Filipino Librarians Danilo Madayag Baylen, West Visayas State University, Philippines/ University of West Georgia, United States Elra Madalogdog, West Visayas State University, Philippines
Practices to Implement and Champion a Blended Learning Approach to Information Literacy at an Academic Library Magdeline NG Tao Tao, Suei Nee WONG, and Siu Chen LIM, National University of Singapore Libraries, Singapore
EDI Initiatives & Canadian STEM Academic Librarianship Shiyi Xie, Western Libraries, University of Western Ontario, Canada Guoying (Grace) Liu, Leddy Library, University of Windsor, Canada

Moderated by Michele Fenton, Co-Chair of IRRT International Papers & Projects Session Committee

noreply@blogger.com (Joan Weeks) — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 02:01:00 +0000

IRRT Papers & Projects Session

ADVANCED CALL FOR PROPOSALS

at ALA Annual 2023

The American Library Association's International Relations Round Table (IRRT) Papers and Projects Committee invites proposals for a presentation at the 2023 American Library Association Annual Conference, scheduled to take place in Chicago, IL from June 22-27, 2023.

The International Papers and Projects Session provides librarians with an opportunity to exchange information about library services, collections and projects throughout the world. The program also serves to stimulate the interest of U.S. librarians in international library matters. The 2023 International Papers and Projects theme is Finding a New Normal: Library Policies and Practices.

The world continues to navigate the changing landscape shaped by three years of living with the pandemic, political upheaval, and environmental crisis. Organizations must find balance among traditional, pre-pandemic policies and practices, pandemic-related policies and practices that changed how and where libraries provide service, and the “new normal” of returning to more traditional policies and practices while the pandemic continues. At the same time, organizations must take special care in how they support and validate their employees as well as take strides in leading inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility efforts in their communities.

The aim of this session is to explore the role of library policies and practices that balance the needs of the organization, the needs of the employee, and the need of the patrons. The balance between policy and practice may also be a delicate framework of expectations and understanding new to the landscape of leadership as libraries seek a new normal. This session hopes to showcase the considerations of developing policies to

1. sustain collections and services,

2. provide for employees, and

3. lead inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility practices

as well as

4. methods of implementation,

5. successes and failures, and

6. revisions after implementation.

This session seeks stories of challenges, successes, and failures of getting buy-in and communicating change to library employees and patrons. We are looking for speakers to share on international and U.S. library projects and issues relating to how they have managed this process and what they have learned from it.

Possible questions related to this theme may include, but are not limited to:

1. How have “post-Covid” policies and practices affected librarians psychologically and physically?

2. How can we most effectively support librarians in their workplaces, as library policies and practices adapt so that they can continue to provide services to the community?

3. How are library administrations creating new policies to transition libraries into a post-Covid era? What practices do employees take to implement them?

4. What obstacles are libraries facing in creating policies and practices to keep buildings open during times of labor shortages, demands for improved EDI focuses, and calls for greater social justice efforts in their organizations?

5. How have your library’s policies impacted the kind of back-to-work model that your institution has adopted in the post-pandemic era? (in-person, hybrid, fully remote work). What factors influenced these decisions?

We encourage submissions that reflect the diverse approaches of the public sector, the academic environment, special libraries, or other types of information organizations. International library schools may also share how they are preparing their students to think about policy and practice. International submissions will be given priority, but submissions from the U.S. will be considered as well, especially if they may be of interest to the international community. To ensure representation from around the world, the IRRT Papers and Projects Committee aims to accept one presentation per country though exceptions may apply.

ADVANCED CALL CONDITIONS

This call for proposals has been released in advance of program acceptance by ALA in hopes that interested international applicants will have more time to seek funding and visa approvals for conference travel. ALA accepts programs between December and January. If ALA denies the IRRT Paper and Projects Session program, the Committee will organize a webinar with selected speakers.

ALTERNATIVE PARTICIPATION METHOD OPTION
DUE TO COVID-19

Considering the uncertainty of COVID-19 and its impacts on international travel, we want to ensure the inclusivity of diverse experiences and wide-ranging perspectives on the challenges of policy and practices that our international community continues to face. Thus, we are also welcoming proposals for short 5-minute interview-style videos, in addition to the traditional conference presentations. These videos will be played at the beginning of the conference session prior to the full-length presentations.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Proposals and presentations must be written and delivered in English, which is the working language of the program. By submitting a proposal, the presenters acknowledge that the policy and practice information can be shared widely in a public setting and the speakers are comfortable and able to address aspects of the policy and practice. There are two submission types for this conference:

Proposals for In-Person Conference Sessions

Proposals for in-person conference sessions should include:

1. Title of the presentation

2. Abstract (500-800 words)

A good abstract will

§ describe the library, its community, the policy and practices, and the situation requiring policy and practice change,

§ describe how the policy and practice relates to one or more of the suggested possible questions or the vision of the session,

§ describe how the policy was drafted, what stakeholders were involved, how it was implemented, and what practices resulted from it,

§ describe how the library addressed the situation through leadership or advocacy in relation to the policy and practice

§ discuss the impact of the policy and practice on the library, employees, community, and its effect on the situation, and

§ address overall if the policy and practice was successful in relation to the situation or if the policy or practice will be adapted or changed in the future.

3. Presenter’s name, title, institutional affiliation, and full contact information (including a valid e-mail address)

4. A short biographical profile of each presenter (100 words each. If the program is accepted, biographies will be used in program advertising).

Proposals should be submitted electronically (as a single Microsoft Word or PDF attachment) to the International Relations Office via email at intl@ala.org with copies to brea.henson@unt.edu, and mfenton@library.in.gov.

Proposals for Introduction Video Clips

If you are interested in sending a video clip, please include:

1. Type of policy change

2. A statement (250-500 words)

A good statement of interest will

§ include a summary of the policy and practice, and

§ describe how the policy and practice relates to the suggested possible questions or vision of the program.

3. Presenter’s name, title, institutional affiliation, and full contact information (including a valid e-mail address)

4. A short biographical profile of each presenter (100 words each)

The deadline for submitting proposals is February 28, 2023.

PRESENTATION FORMAT

Proposals and presentations/interviews must be written and delivered in English, which is the working language of the program. There are two submission types for this conference:

Format for In-Person Conference Session
Each panel presentation is between 10-15 minutes. Applicants are encouraged to consider creative and effective presentations to connect attendees with the topic and to share information that will let attendees know how they could implement similar solutions/programs for their library communities. Slides will be edited and vented by the IRRT Paper and Project Committee. Since ALA has announced Annual 2023 is going to be an in-person conference, we are looking for proposals and panelists who are comfortable traveling to Chicago, IL to present.

Format for Introduction Video Clips

If selected the IRRT Papers and Projects Committee will send the presenters a list of questions and schedule an interview over Zoom. This interview will be recorded, edited, and combined with other interviews to create an introduction video to be played at the beginning of the conference session. The IRRT Paper and Project Committee will post the video for public viewing on its platforms.

SELECTION PROCESS

Up to four in-person proposals will be selected to present at the ALA Annual in June 2023. The IRRT Paper and Project Committee will aim to use as many interview clips in the video as they are able. The video will not exceed 10 minutes of content. Notification of acceptance for proposals and videos will be emailed in March 2023.

We would like to invite you to view previous presentation titles listed on IRRT's International Papers and Projects Session Committee website.

Call for Nominations for IRRT Executive Board

noreply@blogger.com (Joan Weeks) — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 22:28:00 +0000

Dear IRRT member:

The ALA International Relations Round Table Nominations Committee is looking for members who are passionate about international librarianship and are willing to serve as Executive Board members.IRRT is pleased to solicit nominations (and self-nominations) for the positions of:

● Vice Chair/Chair Elect -- Chair-elect (2023-2024), becomes Chair (2024-2025) and

serves as immediate Past-Chair (2025-2026)

● Member-at-Large -- serves a two-year term (2023-2025)

● Secretary/Treasurer -- serves a two-year term (2023-2025)

According to IRRT bylaws, the position of Chair-elect is a three-year commitment in which one serves as chair-elect, chair and past chair. In the first year, one learns about the work of the Executive Board under the tutelage of the Chair and the past-Chair. The Member-at-Large and Secretary-Treasurer positions are two-year commitments and these positions are responsible for contributing informationand wider perspectives from the field.

For a full description of responsibilities of these office holders, please visit IRRT website. Executive Board of the IRRT meets monthly through virtual meetings to discuss IRRT-related issues, which include those that arise through the various committees and the ones related to international aspects of ALA work as a whole, and to work on solutions. Face-to-face meetings take place whenever the ALA Annual conference is held in person, and the vice chair/chair elect is expected to attend these meetings.

Requirements:

1. Candidates must be current ALA and IRRT members.

2. Candidates need to provide their CV and a short statement of interest (approx. 100

words) by October 14, 2022.

Nominate yourself or someone you know by sending an email to the Nominating Committee Chair, Sandy Hirsh, at sandy.hirsh@sjsu.edu.

Preference is given to candidates with prior committee experience within IRRT and a track record of contributing to the IRRT mission.

Thank you for your consideration.

The Nominating Committee

9th Annual Sharjah International Library Conference

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:45:00 +0000

9^th Annual Sharjah International Library Conference

The American Library Association, in collaboration with the Sharjah International Book Fair, is pleased to announce that registration is now open for this

year’s Sharjah International Library Conference which will take place November 8-10 during the Sharjah International Book Fair.

This year’s conference includes two preconference workshops on November 8, and a fully packed two-day conference, November 9-10.

This year participants can propose to present a Poster. Deadline for proposals is September 18.

Main 2-Day Conference, Nov 9-10, programs include:

American Library Association President Lessa Pelayo-Lozada will keynote. Program topics this year include:

Finding Joy: Library as Space for Playful Learning and Creativity
Gamification and Game-Based Learning: Benefits and Tools for Libraries
Libraries Key Role in Infodemic Management
Raising Readers for Life and Services Supporting Seniors: Programing for Patron Stages of Life
Student-Created Media: Designing Research, Learning, and Skill-Building Experiences
Academic Libraries and Student Workers as Success Agents
Engaging Hard to Reach Teenagers

For Book Buyers- The Sharjah International Book Fair offers reimbursement for your hotel nights if you purchase $10,000 at the Fair, and if you purchase $20,000 reimbursement for economy airfare and hotel nights.

Please contact us at intl@ala.org, if you have any questions or to request an invitation letter.

Michael

Michael Dowling

Director,Intl and Chapter Relations Offices

American Library Association

225 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1300

Chicago, IL 60601

p +1 800-545-2433 ext 3200

noreply@blogger.com (Joan Weeks) — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:04:00 +0000

2022 IRRT Papers and Projects session

Library Policies in a Time of Uncertainty and Controversy

Date and Time: Saturday, June 25, 2022 | 11:00am 12:00pm EDT
Location: Washington Convention Center, 147B

International presentations include:

The Evolution of Course Policies and Library Instruction at the American University in Cairo during COVID-19 Presented by Meredith K. Saba, The American University, Cairo, Egypt The presentation will examine how the AUC Library handled different instructional challenges over the past two years as the campus policies on COVID-19 shifted, and also what lessons were learned throughout the process while transitioning from an in-person model to all-online to a current hybrid/DD model. Policy successes, challenges, and suggested changes for the future will be discussed – specifically changes in AUC’s COVID policies overall and in the online learning policy that was developed for all courses.

Pathways to Practice Presented by Rae-Anne Montague, Chicago State University, Chicago, USA and Kuuleilani Reyes, Midkiff Learning Center at Kamehameha Schools, Kapālama, Hawaii, USA The presentation looks at examples of models and resources currently in use in school and public libraries and reviews recent information literacy initiatives that have been implemented to address critical concerns, provide strategic support for diverse informational needs including working directly with students and community leaders, and enhance educational leadership efforts. The presentation also considers ongoing challenges related to policies, representation, access, literacy, and misinformation - as well as some potential options for improving approaches and augmenting future engagement.

Moderated by Brea Henson and Felicia Chan, Co-Chairs of IRRT Papers & Projects Session Committee IRRT Paper & Projects Session Committee Website: https://bit.ly/3tIfX2L ALA Website: https://2022.alaannual.org

Upcoming LIS Talk: San Juan del Sur (Nicaragua) Biblioteca and the HJH Libraries for All Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:45:00 +0000

Interested in International Libraries? Join an upcoming talk about a unique library program in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua:

The San Juan del Sur Biblioteca & The HJH Libraries for All Foundation

Featuring Jane Mirandette and the HJH Team

Monday, June 27, 2022 at 11am-1pm EST

In-person: University of Maryland McKeldin Library Room 6137
RSVP by emailing Lily Griner: griner@umd.edu
Zoom Livestream registration: tinyurl/com/HJHLibraries

CIFNAL Speaker Series on June 10: "Preserving and Disseminating Medieval French Manuscript Heritage : Current Research Programs and Future Perspectives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 15:12:00 +0000

Join us on June 10 at 12pm EDT for the last session of the CIFNAL Speaker Series.

To register: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrcOCpqTkqGtyZGvwVCpRkJY4Us88EWBxL

Preserving and Disseminating Medieval French Manuscript Heritage : Current Research Programs and Future Perspectives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Heir to the collections of the kings of France, the Bibliothèque nationale de France holds one of the largest collections of medieval manuscripts in the world, with nearly 40,000 documents. This collection, which continues to grow through purchases and donations, covers all fields of knowledge and includes many illuminated manuscripts. The BnF preserves and promotes this collection through its online resources (Archives and Manuscripts catalog, Gallica digital library, Mandragore database). The BnF also leads or participates in numerous national or international research programs and uses artificial intelligence technologies to exploit manuscript corpora in order to support new research practices and new appropriations of this French medieval heritage.

Charlotte Denoël is archivist paleograph and chief curator at the Department of Manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale de France where she is in charge of the medieval service. In 2019-2020, she was member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Her research on the manuscripts focuses on the Early and High Middle Ages and addresses images in a transdisciplinary perspective. Manuscripts and their decoration are analyzed through the prism of cultural history, history of art, and iconography. Among her current projects are a survey of manuscripts illuminated in France during the 10^thand 11^th centuries (Harvey Miller) and a collective book about the links between medieval art and contemporary art (Brepols).
Charlotte Denoël curated four exhibitions on the art of the Early and High Middle Ages, “Trésors carolingiens” (BnF, 2007), “Les temps mérovingiens” (Musée de Cluny, 2016), “Make it New. Carte blanche à Jan Dibbets” (BnF, 2018), and “Chefs d’œuvre romans de Saint-Martial de Limoges » (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Limoges, 2019).
She participated in major research programs at the BnF which include digitization, scientific description, restoration, and/or dissemination of some corpus of manuscripts: Europeana Regia (2009-2012), Biblissima (2013-2019), and the Polonsky program “France-Angleterre, 700-1200: manuscrits médiévaux de la BnF et de la British Library” (2016-2018).

Best,

Hélène

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Hélène Huet, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)

European Studies Librarian

George A. Smathers Libraries

University of Florida

hhuet@ufl.edu | (352) 273-2771 | 539 Library West

Mapping Decadence | Hélène Huet

Spring 2022 Newsletter

Research Guides: European Studies; French and Francophone Studies; German Studies; Italian Studies; Portuguese Studies; Slavic, Central, and Eastern European Studies; Spanish Studies

International Symposium - The Great Resignation era: attracting and retaining research library talent

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 24 May 2022 19:09:00 +0000

How can research libraries can attract and retain highly-skilled and talented staff within a highly-competitive and fluid employment market?

On 14 June, IARLA (ARL, CARL, CAUL, LIBER, RLUK) will host an international, virtual symposium to explore how, in the era of the Great Resignation and rising employee expectations, research libraries can offer a compelling and attractive career track to highly-skilled professionals, and how we can incentivise and retain our existing expertise. This will include how research libraries can navigate rising employee and candidate expectations around flexible working and the ways of mitigating the ongoing Talent Crunch.

Context

Research libraries sit within an international and highly competitive job market. Many of the skills we require are highly sought after in other sectors, including the information, technology, wider education, and commercial communities, which can pay a premium for skills and talent. The recent rise in employee and candidate expectations around flexible working arrangements presents an additional challenge to recruiting and retaining talent amongst research libraries, especially when other sectors are now offering highly-attractive flexible working packages in response to the Talent Crunch and skills shortages. As a consequence, research libraries can find it difficult to compete for, and then retain, highly specialist and expert staff.

This symposium will explore the experiences of research libraries in attracting and retaining talent. It will explore the impact and opportunities of the ‘Great Resignation’ across our community, and the subsequent ‘Great Restructure’ within our institutions. Central to its discussions will be a consideration of how research libraries can retain highly-skilled talent within such a competitive and shifting job market, and communicate a compelling and attractive career track that does not necessarily depend on ‘above market’ salaries.

This event is free to attend and open to all. Find out more and register here.

Its on June 1st - ALA IRRT Webinar: Perspectives on International Digital Scholarship Collaborations... (Two presentations)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 24 May 2022 19:08:00 +0000

Join us for the upcoming webinar:

Perspectives on International Digital Scholarship Collaborations During a Global Pandemic (Two presentations)

Date: June 1, 2022

Time: 1 pm PT/MST, 2 pm MDT, 3 pm CT, 4 pm ET

Registration Link: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-lNx00RgRtGt3GcxOUqnCA

1. Title: Preserving International Relationships & Items in a Time of Covid

Description: In 2018, The Libraries became a partner with the Narrative Art & Visual Storytelling in Holocaust & Human Rights Education Project through new services offered through UVIC Libraries' "Grants Menu," which offers librarian and archivist expertise in digitizing, preserving, and making accessible project material. The Narrative Art Project pairs together Holocaust Survivors and graphic artists from across the world in order to co-create a graphic novel that provides witness to the Survivors' experiences. A close relationship formed between the artists and survivors as they talked, listened, and created together. In 2020, the close collaboration among the participants went online as a result of the COVID epidemic. This talk will address the promises and challenges of working on an international project, including issues of building capacity, digitization, working remotely, and training stakeholders in best practices for preservation and access. https://holocaustgraphicnovels.org/

Presenter: Dr. J. Matthew Huculak is Head of Advanced Research Services & Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Victoria Libraries He holds a PhD in English Language & Literature and an MLIS with a concentration on archives and preservation. He is the founding Managing Editor of Modernism/modernity’s Print Plus platform, which won the Association of American Publishers 2019 PROSE Awards for “Innovation in Publishing.” His research focuses on libraries, 20th-century English literature, book history, and periodicals. He has served as Editorial Assistant for the James Joyce Quarterly, Project Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities funded Modernist Journals Project and is currently Director of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded Modernist Versions Project and Co-Director of BC Open Textbook-funded Open Modernisms. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2717-1112

2. Title: International Collaboration in Interesting Times: Salzburg, Skype, and Stefan Zweig

Description: In January 2020, an agreement was made between the Zweig Digital project team from the Salzburg Literature Archive and the Special Collections & Archives Division of SUNY Fredonia’s Daniel A. Reed Library to collaborate on a massive 40-year update to the arrangement, description, and finding aid of Fredonia’s renowned Stefan Zweig Collection, along with its complete digitization. With plans to begin traveling internationally and working together starting that March in place, arrangements were made for the creation of internships to assist with the process and work with the collection materials, a workflow was created, and we were ready to begin the process! Clearly, none of this happened as planned, but with some major help from technology, the willingness to experiment, and a little creative innovation, we were able to shift our workflows (and timelines!) in order to continue the project virtually.

Presenter: Amanda M. Shepp, MLS currently serves as the Coordinator of Special Collections & Archives in the Special Collections & Archives Division of SUNY Fredonia’s Daniel A. Reed Library. She presents and writes on topics related to digital humanities and historical subjects within the realms of Spiritualism, Victoriana, and the Occult, including “A Peek Beyond the Veil: ‘Spiritualist Shorts’ at Lily Dale” (2020). She has previously served as Library Director for the Marion H. Skidmore Library in the Lily Dale Assembly Spiritualist community and received the WNYLRC Excellence in Library Service Award in 2017 for her role in completely revitalizing the library and bringing it up to modern academic standards. Amanda also serves as the Secretary of the Festivals Fredonia Executive Board of Directors and is co-chair of the Harvest Moon Festival & Cemetery Tours.

Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya, PhD

Co-chair, ALA IRRT Webinar Committee &

Independent Researcher, Singapore

Introducing the IFLA North America Regional Division

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 20 May 2022 16:55:00 +0000

The IFLA North America Regional Division is a new division of IFLA, the global voice of libraries. We are reaching out to national and regional Library Associations across the USA and Canada to build more powerful advocacy with policy makers and to ensure that the benefits of engaging with IFLA are well known across North America.

Our NA Regional Division members are seeking your assistance!

By working cooperatively with existing library associations, other IFLA Regional Divisions and IFLA Headquarters, the NA Regional Division is identifying priorities for the region and defining and delivering on action plans that respond to these priorities. It is our goal to extend IFLA’s membership and reach and to work closely with you and your members to strengthen the voice of libraries.

As a support to the launch of the regional divisions, IFLA conducted a survey of our colleagues across the USA and Canada which informed our choice of the following key initiatives for the 2021-2023 term:

· Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Ensure library workers in North America have the advocacy skills needed to demonstrate how libraries contribute to city, state and local governments efforts to achieve progress on the SDG’s. Our goal is to deliver webinars that will help libraries share stories about how we support the SDGs.

· Enrich the IFLA Library Map of the World (LMW) with content from across NA
The LMW can be a powerful advocacy tool. It is intended to be a source of country-level library statistics, information about the library environment in each country and a unifying platform that provides access to Sustainable Development Goals stories. We will be adding the library descriptions and statistics for our countries so this can be a global resource about libraries in the USA and Canada.

· Global Advocacy with a focus on Copyright

Raise awareness of library copyright issues among policy makers and governments. We will connect with library associations working in this area to learn what is needed for support and intend to collect copyright impact stories from the United States and Canada.

· Regional Advocacy with a focus on Digital Inclusion
Perform a 360 degree review of North American initiatives, facilitate webinars, and develop recommendations of best practices.

· Supporting Outreach – focus on expanding IFLA membership and build awareness across NA
Develop a white paper and deliver a webinar series to promote all the benefits of IFLA membership, encouraging library workers to join IFLA and participate in our global library community.

We are stronger together. Please do not hesitate to reach out to any of our NA Regional Division Members. We look forward to connecting with you soon!

Michael Bailou Huang, MLS, MEd, MS, L.Ac.

SUNY Distinguished Librarian

Director, Global Library Initiatives

Stony Brook University

Health Sciences Library
Health Sciences Tower, Level 3, Rm 136

Stony Brook, NY 11794-8034

Phone: 631.444.3794

michael.b.huang@stonybrook.edu

IRRT Pre-Conference

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 18 May 2022 23:44:00 +0000

Global Libraries As Advocates For Information Policy Change

Friday, June 24, 2022
8:30am - 1:00pm
WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER, 150A

The pandemic has raised our awareness and understanding of the need for information
policies that support the ability of libraries to serve their communities. What are the persistent
and new policy issues that libraries around the world must focus on? How can we strengthen
our ability to influence legislative and legal change, and participate in the political process on
the local, national, and global levels?

This pre-conference will provide opportunities for learning and sharing, on the impact of the
pandemic on information policy, a detailed look at several key policy areas, and how library
professionals can be effective advocates in the legislative and legal arenas.

Welcome Remarks
Jim Neal, IRRT Chair, Columbia University

Equity of Internet Access

Nicole Umayam, Arizona State Library

Impact of Pandemic on Information Policy
Joe Thompson, Carroll County Public Library

Privacy
Deborah Caldwell-Stone, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom

Library Professionals as Effective Advocates

Alan S. Inouye, ALA's PPA Office

To register:, please visit ALA's Annual registration page: 2022.alaannual.org
(EVENT CODE: IRR1). Fee includes registration, materials, and lunch.

Jim Neal
University Librarian Emeritus
Columbia University
ALA President 2017-18
ALA Honorary Member
jneal0@columbia.edu
www.columbia.edu/~jneal

ALA Member International Conference Participation Survey - Interest, Needs, and Barriers

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 18 May 2022 23:44:00 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to take the ALA Member International Conference Participation Survey - Interest, Needs, and Barriers. The Survey is initiated and developed by the ALA International Relations Round Table (IRRT) 2022 Emerging Leader Group. Your contribution will help inform IRRT's future initiatives and programs to empower ALA members' engagement in international conferences.

Your participation is anonymous, voluntary, and will take about 15 minutes.

The study has been approved by the West Chester University Institutional Review Board (IRB). If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Grace Liu at yliu@wcupa.edu.

Click this link to take the Survey.

The survey will be closed on May 31, 2022.

Thank you for your support and participation.

ALA IRRT Emerging Leader 2022
Elizabeth Dawson
Shoshana Frank
Tim Furgal
Olanike Olaniyi

IRRT Emerging Leader Member Guide
Grace Liu
Érica Saito

Navigating International Conference Opportunities: advancing your career with tips, personal experiences, and global collaborations

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 03 May 2022 16:22:00 +0000

Navigating International Conference Opportunities: advancing your career with tips, personal experiences, and global collaborations

Registration link: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Bm9FiTJnTeiW_80lxobyRg

Description: Do you want to learn about opportunities to advance your career by networking with international professionals? After a special introduction by Jim Neal, current IRRT Chair, Loida Garcia-Febo, Mark Mattson, and Gina de Alwis will share different paths to expand careers with international platforms. The presenters will share tips on finding and connecting with professionals outside your home country. Through the panelists personal experiences discover the benefits and opportunities in international conference attendance and collaborations.

Speakers:

Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya counts over four decades experience in academic and special libraries and was Head of the Singapore Institute of Management library for 27 years. Gina holds a PhD in Information Studies from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and researched on Information Seeking Behaviour of Managers in a Digital Environment for her thesis. She has travelled widely and visited libraries both in the West and the East to keep current with new trends and technological advancements in the field. She has presented papers at numerous conferences and has many publications to her credit.

During her travels in the Asian region, Gina had the opportunity to gain valuable insights on the training gaps faced by LIS professionals which led her to initiate a research project on “Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for LIS Professionals in selected Asian Countries” in 2019. The initial study was conducted in the Maldives and findings published/presented in Journal of Education in Library & Information Science (JELIS) and IFLA Journal; IKC conference 2021 and ALA21 Virtual. The IFLA CPDWL Newsletter, Jan 2022 (p. 16) includes the latest updates on the project. Gina continues her collaboration with the Maldives to address gaps in CPD opportunities. The research study has since been extended to two further countries in Southeast Asia.

Gina was a founding member of the Asia Pacific Business School Librarians’ Group (APBSLG) inaugurated in 2002 and served as its chair from 2008-2012 and 2018. During this period, she also had the opportunity to connect with counterpart groups Academic Business Library Directors (ABLD) & European Business School Librarians’ Group (EBSLG). She currently serves as a committee member of the IFLA LIS Education in Developing Countries SIG and co-chair of the ALA IRRT Webinar Committee. She is an Associate Member of the Sri Lanka Library Association and a member of the Library Association of Singapore.

Loida Garcia-Febo is a Puerto Rican American librarian and International Library Consultant with 24 years of experience as an expert in library services to diverse populations and human rights. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 38 countries. In her job, she helps libraries, companies and organizations strategize programs, services and strategies in areas related to these topics and many others. Garcia-Febo has a bachelor's in Business Education, master's in Library and Information Sciences, and is pursuing a PhD in Library and Information Sciences with a focus on library services to Spanish speaking library patrons in the USA.

She has a long history of service at library associations. Highlights include- At IFLA: Governing Board 2013-2017, Co-Founder of IFLA New Professionals, two-term Member/Expert resource person of the Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression Committee of IFLA (FAIFE), two-term member of the Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section of IFLA (CPDWL). Currently: CPDWL Advisor, Information Coordinator of the Management of Library Associations Section. Currently at ALA: Chair, Status of Women in Librarianship and just completed a term leading the groundbreaking ALA’s United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force to develop a multi-year strategic plan for ALA. Born, raised, and educated in Puerto Rico Garcia-Febo she has an unprecedented librarian presence in social media raising awareness about libraries and librarians. She has advocated for libraries at the United Nations, the European Union Parliament, U.S. Congress, NY State Senate, NY City Hall, and on sidewalks and streets in various states.

Mark Mattson is Head of Global Engagement Initiatives and International Partnerships Librarian at the Penn State University Libraries. Mark works to build bridges between libraries at Penn State and international partner institutions as well as support the overall internationalization and global engagement efforts of the university. His areas of research interest include international sister-library partnerships, comparative and international librarianship, the contribution of academic libraries to campus internationalization, global citizenship programming, libraries and intercultural dialogue, international student services, and librarianship in service of global priorities and goals. Mark is a member of the American Library Association's International Relations Round Table and is also a personal affiliate of the International Federation of Library Associations. Mark enjoys visiting international libraries both within and outside Penn State’s Global Engagement Network and fostering connections between librarians around the world.

Moderator: Jim Neal is University Librarian Emeritus at Columbia University and currently serves as the Chair on ALA’s International Relations Round Table and is the Treasurer of the Freedom to Read Foundation. In Jim’s illustrious career, he has served as Presidents, Chairs, and on Boards of organizations and universities that have shaped and served libraries for the last twenty-five years. Jim has traveled in 92 countries and has spoken at over 80 international conferences, including keynote addresses in 22 countries, to promote the work librarians do all over the world. In recognition of his outstanding contribution, The American Library Association (ALA) Council elected Jim to honorary membership in the association, the ALA's highest honor, during the virtual 2022 Library Learning Experience.

Invitation to symposium: Contested Collections: Grappling With History and Forging Pathways for Repatriation

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 03 May 2022 00:32:00 +0000

Dear all,

I am inviting you to this four-part symposium that I’m coordinating. We often think of repatriation as a museum issue, but it applies to libraries and archives as well. We have an excellent lineup of international speakers. Please visit our symposium site to learn more about the programs and speakers. And do register (it’s free!) if you plan on attending. Please share widely and excuse cross-posting.

Join us for Contested Collections: Grappling with History and Forging Pathways for Repatriation, an online symposium hosted by UCLA Library and co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies from May 17 to 19, 2022. This four-part series featuring international experts explores the complicated histories of cultural heritage collections, the expropriation of artifacts through colonialism and looting, the politics and ethics of ownership and restitution, and decolonization in libraries, archives, and museums.

Returning Home: Reclaiming Nazi-Looted Jewish Materials
Tuesday, May 17, 9-10:30 a.m. PT

Entangled Collections: Colonial Histories and the Ethics of Ownership and Stewardship
Wednesday, May 18, 9-10:30 a.m. PT
Beyond NAGPRA: Centering Cultural Sovereignty and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Wednesday, May 18, 2-3:30 p.m. PT
Paving a Way Forward: Current and Future Approaches to Restitution
Thursday, May 19, 12:30-2 p.m. PT

For more information about the programs and speakers, please go to the symposium site. Registration is required, so do RSVP.

Best,

Jade

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Jade Alburo

Librarian/Curator for Southeast Asian Studies & Pacific Islands Studies

Outreach Coordinator for International & Area Studies

International & Area Studies | Charles E. Young Research Library

Pronouns: she/siya

2022 Call for Photo Contribution - Best Practices from World Libraries Photo Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Joan Weeks) — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 01:32:00 +0000

Hello IRRT Community,

Call for Photo Contribution -2022 Best Practices from World Libraries Photo Gallery

The International Connections Committee (ICC) of the International Relations Round Table (IRRT) at the American Library Association (ALA) cordially invites you to contribute a photo from your library that best demonstrates the IRRT President's initiative this year, "Global libraries as agents of leadership in our post pandemic world" Show us what your library did during the pandemic and help us build the "2022 Best Practices from World Libraries" photo gallery. The photos will be displayed via our websites, publications and/or social media outlets.

Examples from previous years:
ALA-IRRT International Connections

The deadline for photo submissions is April 25, 2022.

Please use the Google submission form to upload your image.

If a Google account is not available, please email your submission to Sandy McCarthy at mccarthy@wccnet.edu following the instructions, requirements and format below.

General Email Submission Instructions/Format

Email subject title should read: 2022 Photo Gallery

In the email, please provide the following information:

Project title (a short title for your library's project)
Library and its affiliation (example: Fogler Library, University of Maine)
Library location (State/Province, Country; example: Michigan, USA)
Library type (select from the following: Academic library, Public library, School library, Special library or other)
Project description (in under 200 words, please describe why this project best demonstrates the value of libraries in rapidly changing world)
Project contact person and email (preferred but optional; the contact information will be publicly displayed)
Preferred attribution for the image (name of image owner)

*Image requirements: please provide the image with the highest resolution you have; a horizontal photo that is at least 5400 pixels wide with 300 dpi is preferred.

**Notice - With this submission, you grant the ALA, IRRT and ICC full permission to distribute, edit and build upon your work with attribution.

All questions can be directed to Sandy McCarthy at mccarthy@wccnet.edu

noreply@blogger.com (Joan Weeks) — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:14:00 +0000

2022 IRRT Papers and Projects session- Call for Proposals

The American Library Association's International Relations Round Table Papers and Projects Committee invites proposals for presentations at the 2022 American Library Association Annual Conference, scheduled to take place in Washington DC from June 23-28, 2022. The International Papers and Projects Session provides librarians with an opportunity to exchange information about library services, collections, and projects throughout the world. The program also serves to stimulate the interest of U.S. librarians in international library matters.

The 2022 International Papers and Projects theme is Library Policies in a Time of Uncertainty and Controversy. As the world continues to navigate the changing landscape shaped by two years of living with the pandemic, organizations must deal with uncertainly, make difficult policy decisions that are often further complicated by controversy and opposing viewpoints.

The aim of this session is to explore the role of library policies in helping to provide guidance and clarity, providing a framework for the expectation of what needs to be done. Such policies can range from short term policies to ensure continued access to information, operational changes to ensure business continuity, to longer term strategic policies that have evolved or have been accelerated because of the pandemic. These can be related to collection development the type of services libraries need to provide, the communities they serve, and new areas of concern relating to human resources.

This session hopes to showcase the process of identifying areas in policy that need improvement, the steps taken to implement new policies in uncertain times, the challenges faced in getting buy-in, as well as in communicating change. We are looking for speakers to share on international and US library projects and issues relating to how they have managed this process and what they have learned from it.

Possible topics related to this theme may include-but are not limited to:

The thought processes and implementation journey behind responsive operational policies that allowed the library to continue to serve its community
Strategic policies that the library had reviewed, for example distribution of materials to be acquired, digital access policies, human resource needs etc.
How the pandemic had accelerated the need to amend existing policy decisions and how the trajectory of these discussions evolved over time
Information access policies to combat misinformation, but at the same time maintaining representation of diverse voices
Difficult policy decisions that had to be made whether because it alienated specific groups or top-down mandates that were beyond the library’s control
Managing the demands and expectations of library users, what they expected the library to provide with changing conditions and what the library could provide
Challenges relating to communicating policy related decisions, from getting staff buy-in to ensuring library users were aware of the changes, whether it was something new or a reversal of a temporary policy that library users have gotten used to due to a return to normalcy

We encourage submissions that reflect the diverse approaches of the public sector, the academic environment, special libraries, or other types of information organizations. International library schools may also share how they are preparing their students to think about policy. International submissions will be given priority, but submissions from the US will be considered as well, especially if they may be of interest to the international community. To ensure representation from around the world, only one presentation per country will be selected.

Alternative Participation Method Option due to COVID-19

Considering the uncertainty of COVID-19 and the unknown status of international travel restrictions this summer, we want to ensure the inclusivity of diverse experiences and wide-ranging perspectives on the policy challenges that our international community has faced and continues to face. Thus, we are also welcoming proposals for short 5-minute interview-style videos, in addition to the traditional conference presentations. These videos will be played at the beginning of the conference session prior to the full-length presentations.

Submission Guidelines

Full Proposal and Submission Guidelines

Deadline for submitting proposals is February 28, 2022.

IFLA's Upcoming Virtual Events

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 15:25:00 +0000

Join us at one of IFLA’s upcoming virtual events! IFLA Professional Unit and Regional Division Virtual Events are an opportunity to engage with a global audience, sharing relevant research and practice through workshops, presentations and discussions. Finishing out the month, are the following Professional Unit events. Click on the individual link to find out more, or check out the IFLA Events Calendar. Events are offered free of charge.

Lessons from the Library Advocacy Priorities Survey – IFLA Regional Council

Wednesday December 8, 2021 – Offered twice to fit different time zones

09:00 - 09:45 CEST CET/UTC+2 - Registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MQ_DjshSRUOqN6zAwxOIzw

14:00 - 14:45 CEST CET/UTC+2 – Registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x7h_LLR6TZKhLBypmXjJ2w

Where are libraries around the world focusing their advocacy efforts? And what activities are they undertaking to achieve them? IFLA’s Regional Advocacy Priorities Study draws on results to a survey to provide a starting point for thinking about where and how we advocate.

Join this webinar to find out more about the results of the Study, and some of the possible trends and issues it raises. Following a presentation of the data and of these tentative conclusions, there will be time to ask questions.

Discover the full results of the study, as well as initial analysis of responses on policy focus and advocacy activities.

- Organised by the IFLA Regional Council

Literacy & Representation: Teaching Media & Visual Literacies Across Communities

Tuesday, December 14, 15:00 - 16:00 CEST/UTC+2

Registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B4Ea5P_cTiCcEcwRWIJduA

The IFLA Audiovisual & Multimedia Section invites you to a webinar, "Literacy & Representation: Teaching Media & Visual Literacies Across Communities"

Description: We are living in a turbulent, visual landscape that has proven the importance of media and visual literacy to our students now more than ever. Every day students are bombarded with images and visual media from numerous sources without having the skills needed to understand the messages being sent and the level of reliability of their creators. Media and visual literacy skills are also not inherently a part of our natural skillset as humans; these are skills that need to be taught, learned, and practiced.

This presentation is the result of a collaboration between three librarians at Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and is based on the three librarians' areas of expertise, media, and visual literacy, as well as their individual identities. The presentation will use these literacies as a lens through which to explore civil rights and social justice issues and emphasize the importance of supporting neurodiverse communities.

Outcome: Attendees of this presentation will learn how to incorporate media and visual literacy into their classrooms, to be more aware of a variety of perspectives and communities, and how to encourage and create a safe and inviting space where all learners can be vulnerable and grow.

Presenters: Nicholae Cline, Librarian for Media Studies, Gender Studies & Philosophy; Jackie Fleming, Librarian for Visual Literacy and Resources; Monique Threatt, Head, Media Services

-Organised by the IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section

IFLA SCITECH: The Carpentries & Author Carpentry

Wednesday, 15 December 00:00-1:00 CEST/UTC+2 (15:00 – 16:00 PST)

Registration required: https://libcal.caltech.edu/event/8538269

This webinar will provide a brief introduction to The Carpentries instructional philosophy of researcher-to-researcher computational training. We’ll then discuss Author Carpentry, an independent set of modules that can be integrated into a Carpentries Workshops or taught as an independent curriculum. They cover topics not traditionally included in a Carpentry Workshop, such as open authorship, writing in standard formats like Markdown, creating a reproducible and interactive report in RStudio, digital object identifiers, and ORCID IDs. We’ll discuss the future of Author Carpentry and ways you can be involved in the development of this open curriculum.

Presenter: Tom Morrell is the Research Data Specialist at Caltech Library. He manages the CaltechDATA institutional repository for research data and software, and helps Caltech researchers share their results with the world. Tom has been a certified Carpentry instructor for five years and taught numerous Software and Data Carpentry Workshops. Tom also helped create the Author Carpentry curriculum and has taught Author Carpentry lessons at Caltech and the FORCE 11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI). Tom has a background in computational chemistry and brings a researcher-focused perspective to his work.

- Organised by the IFLA Science & Technology Libraries Section

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Be sure to visit IFLA’s Calendar of Events for additional details on these and other library and information-related events. Recordings of previous virtual events can be found on the IFLA YouTube channel.

Upcoming IFLA Webinars

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:48:00 +0000

Join us at one of these upcoming virtual events! IFLA Professional Unit Virtual Events are an opportunity to engage with a global audience, sharing relevant research and practice through workshops, presentations and discussions. Click on the individual link to find out more, or check out the IFLA Events Calendar. Events are offered free of charge.

ALL OUR MEMORIES – Engaging local communities with their local history

Tuesday, 23 November, 14:00 – 16:00 CET/UTC+1

Registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yNqDCLLnQSW9q-xMrwrP5A

Libraries are widely appreciated as stewards of local history and repositories of community’s collective memory but engaging communities with these collections and their local story has become an equally important role for libraries and other cultural institutions.

The IFLA Local History and Genealogy Section is hosting a webinar on 23 November 2021. In this webinar, you can hear about ‘Brama’s Grodzka – Teatr NN’ work focusing on the history of Lublin, especially on its Jewish district which was completely destroyed during World War II.

Using archival materials, photographs and recorded oral histories and also advanced technical methods, the institution restores the knowledge of the forgotten heritage for the contemporary inhabitants of the city in innovative and engaging ways.

Meanwhile, the Europeana 1914-1918 roadshows in Romania managed not only to collect from Romanian public documents, stories, photos and all kind of memorabilia from World War One’s time, but to also successfully engage diverse categories of public.

Europeana Migration, another successful crowdsourcing project run by Europeana and its partners focused on gathering personal migration stories and associated objects such as pictures, diaries, videos or letters. These stories are part of Europe’s rich and shared history of migration and are recorded for the future.

In this webinar we shall also hear about the Europeana Migration Campaign in Serbia.

Speakers

Cristina Roiu – Head International Marketing Department, Romanian Academy Library, Member- Steering Group; Europeana Communicators Community; Local History and Genealogy Section Standing Committee Member
Emil Majuk – Curator, Tadeusz Przystojecki - genealogist: Brama Grodzka - Teatr NN, Lublin Poland
Tamara Butigan – Head of Digital Library Department, National Library of Serbia , Europeana Network Association Councillor

-Organised by the IFLA Local History and Genealogy Section (GENLOC)

Accessibility Helps You Share More, Share Better

Tuesday, 23 November, 17:30 – 18:30 CET/UTC+1

Registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wVBdnnGbQhubQY-tw5dH3w

The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS) invites you to a 60-minute webinar on how to make born digital content more accessible.

Librarian Jessamyn West will look at “born digital” content and share resources and tips to help content producers and sharers reach the widest audience they can.

Jessamyn West is a library technologist from Randolph, Vermont, USA. She is a nationally known speaker, writer, and educator on the issues facing today’s libraries. Her blog focusing on libraries and politics, Librarian.net, is one of the earliest and longest running librarian websites. She writes a column for Computers in Libraries magazine and is the author of the book Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide. She has taught “Tools for Community Advocacy” for the University of Hawaii’s Library School and was on the Advisory Board to the Wikimedia Foundation. As a librarian without a library, for the past fifteen years she has spent most of her time working with her local community as a hands-on technology educator.

- Organised by the IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS)

IFLA/Systemic Public Library of the Year Award: Meeting with the Stars!

Wednesday, 24 November 13:00-14:00 CET/UTC+1

Registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hh3UJSZxSQiGdMJ-7Fagrw

Please join the IFLA Public Libraries Section as we celebrate the 2020/21 shortlisted libraries for the IFLA/Systematic Public Library of the Year Award and to hear from previous winners of the award.

It is widely accepted that the library building is a crucially important ingredient in the successful operation of a public library.

The IFLA Systematic Public Library of the Year Award celebrates beautiful and unique public library buildings from around the world. The award is presented annually to the world’s best public library – a newly built public library that combines functional architecture with creative IT solutions and includes digital development with local culture. But what makes these exemplar libraries so successful? What can we learn from these libraries and which elements are they most proud of? These questions and others will be answered during The Public Library of the Year Webinar.

Representatives from the following short-listed libraries from the 2020-2021 award will be joining the webinar:

Deichman Bjørvika, Oslo Public Library (Norway) and winner of the 2020-2021 edition.
Forum Groningen (The Netherlands)
Marrickville Library (Australia)
Het Predikheren (Belgium)
Ningbo New Library (China)

- Organised by the IFLA Public Libraries Section (PUBLIB)

Volunteering in Libraries – Activities and Benefits: A Webinar Series for LIS students

Friday, 3 December, 15:00 – 16:30 CET/UTC+1

Registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0F1cmoinSEaJx5e2q8NiOw

The IFLA Education and Training Section (SET) and IFLA Professional Division C invite you a webinar dedicated to the benefits of volunteering in libraries.

December’s webinar is dedicated to the International Volunteer Day (December 5). We will talk about your volunteering activities in the libraries, library associations and other library institutions as a LIS student, whether it has been beneficial for your professional development, or how you impacted the library and the users by your volunteering activity.

Keynote speakers: Magdalena Gomułka, Susanne List-Tretthahn, Andrés Reinoso, and Marija Šimunović will present “Volunteering in librarian’s life.”

-Organised by the IFLA Section on Education and Training (SET)

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IRRT Call for proposals for Mission Enhancement Grant

noreply@blogger.com (Joan Weeks) — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 02:19:00 +0000

The International Relations Round Table (IRRT) announces the call for proposals for its Mission Enhancement Grant. In 2016, IRRT members and supporters established the IRRT Endowment. Interest from the Endowment will be used to fund member-initiated proposals for international projects that contribute to ALA’s role in international librarianship. Goals for the funding are to provide support for international projects or partnerships; promote a global dialogue about librarianship; increase visibility of international opportunities for U.S. and international librarians, and encourage international collaboration in librarianship.

Examples of proposals that could be considered for funding include, but are not limited to:

Support for travel that is necessary to advance an international project
Funds to support collaborative sister library projects
Funds to support the development and distribution of training or publicity materials in support of an international project

The amount available for grants may vary each year. IRRT may choose to use available funds to provide one or more grants of varying amounts. The maximum grant amount per proposal will be $1,000.

Proposal process:

Please visit the IRRT Mission Enhancement Grant website (https://www.ala.org/rt/irrt/irrt-mission-enhancement-grant) to learn more about the criteria and proposal process, and to download the proposal form. Proposals are due no later than Jan. 3, 2022 and will be reviewed by the IRRT Endowment Committee.

noreply@blogger.com (Joan Weeks) — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 15:44:00 +0000

Call for Applications: Library and Information Science Student Voices: Global Peer-to-Peer Dialogue

04 November 2021

The IFLA Building Strong Library and Information Science Education Working Group (BSLISE) announces the second webinar “Library and Information Science Student Voices: Global Peer-to-Peer Dialogue”. Its aim is to connect library and information science (LIS) students all over the world to communicate and discuss the present and future of the LIS field. The peer-to-peer exchange among LIS students creates a platform to highlight experiences, engage ideas and express opinions about LIS education and the profession – valuable insights for an evolving field and for their own professional future.

This event will be held online and free to everyone. The event’s format is a panel discussion.

We are interested in hearing about your experience in research, projects, advocacy and other activities in the LIS field.

How to apply for participation

Participants need to meet the following criteria:

Hold current status as an LIS student (Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD program).
Have access to the Internet.
Have English fluency.
Have engaged in research, projects, advocacy and/or other activities of interest to the LIS global community.

If you are interested in participating in this event, please send a proposal stating:

Name & contact information
LIS program and institutional affiliation
A recommendation from a faculty member at your institution
Brief biographical statement and description of your LIS research, project, advocacy or other experience. (max 300 words)

Send your application to IFLA Section on Education and Training iflaset23@gmail.com.

Accepted participants will receive a certificate from the BSLISE for participation at the webinar.

Important dates

Deadline for application is November 19, 2021
The accepted participants will be notified by November 22, 2021
The webinar is held on November 26, 2021 (Time will be confirmed depending on the time zones of the speakers)

For further questions, contact: Albina Krymskaya (krymskayaalbina@gmail.com), Amara Malik (amara.im@pu.edu.pk).

30th Anniversary Forum & 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture | 8 November 2021

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 22:34:00 +0000

30th Anniversary Forum & 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture | 8 November 2021

Forum: 10:30 am-12:00 pm CT
Lecture: 12:30-2:00 pm CT
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For more information: https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/30th-anniversary/
Register for FREE here: go.illinois.edu/DistinguishedLecture

30th Anniversary Forum & 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture | 8 November 2021
Forum: 10:30 am-12:00 pm CT
Lecture: 12:30-2:00 pm CT
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For more information: https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/30th-anniversary/

This year we have been celebrating the Mortenson Center's 30th anniversary through various activities. We invite you to a virtual forum to celebrate our remarkable center to feature and discuss the ways the Mortenson Center has impacted and will continue to enhance the library and information field, the careers of librarians and the work of library institutions and associations worldwide.

SEE OUR Alumni Over The Years map and Where Are They Now map!

PROGRAM - 30th Anniversary Forum & 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
•    10:30 am - Welcome
•    10:40 am - Tribute to Mortensons and the Center
•    10:45 am - Past Directors Remarks
•    10:50 am - Transformational Leadership Panel
•    11:20 am - 30 Years and Beyond: Community and Sustainable Development Panel
•    12:00 pm - Celebration and Connections Break
•    12:30-2:00 pm - 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture on "Engineering Change and the Power of Information: Otherness, Exclusion, Propaganda, Dislocation," with Dr. Agnes Kaposi, Engineer, Educator, Holocaust survivor and Author of "Yellow Star-Red Star" (2020), and conversation with Dr. Valerie J. Matsumoto

31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Agnes Kaposi, Engineer, Educator, Holocaust survivor and Author of "Yellow Star-Red Star" (2020)
8 November 2021; 12:30-2:00 pm CT
A Lecture in celebration of the Mortenson Center's 30th Anniversary: https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/lectures/

ABSTRACT:
Join us for a lecture with Dr. Kaposi, who brings nearly a century of perspective as she tells her life story and the role of information as a source of power/control resulting in otherness, exclusion, propaganda, dislocation, as well as transformation in engineering change. A conversation will follow, moderated by Dr. Valerie Matsumoto, to connect Dr. Kaposi's experiences with those of other marginalized and dislocated groups worldwide, such as Japanese Americans, to identify similarities and differences across time and locations, as we rethink some of the most pressing issues that libraries face in promoting equitable communities in our information-intensive and networked society.

ABOUT DR. AGNES KAPOSI:
Dr. Agnes Kaposi was born in Hungary in 1932, a year before Hitler came to power. She started school at the outbreak of World War II. Many of her family and friends were murdered in the Holocaust, together with half a million other Hungarian Jews, but a series of miracles and coincidences allowed her to survive. She worked at age 11 as a child labourer in the agricultural and armament camps of Austria and was liberated by a rampaging Soviet Army. She struggled through post-war hardship to re-enter Hungarian society, only to be caught up for a decade in the vice of Stalinism. In 1956, the Hungarian revolution offered the opportunity to escape. Entering Britain as a graduate engineer, she started a family and built a career as a researcher, educator and consultant. She was the third woman to become a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is the author of a recent memoir co-written with historian Laszlo Csosz of University of Budapest, Yellow Star-Red Star (i2i Publications, Manchester).

ABOUT DR. VALERIE MATSUMOTO:
Valerie J. Matsumoto is a professor in the Department of History and the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA. In addition to her book City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950, she is the author of Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982 and co-edited the essay collection Over the Edge: Remapping the American West. She was the first recipient of the Toshio and Doris Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Award, received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, and has twice received the Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and Teaching from the UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association. In 2017 she was appointed to the George and Sakaye Aratani Endowed Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community.

CO-SPONSORED BY: Department of Asian American Studies | Center for Global Studies through support from the US Department of Education's Title VI NRC Program | European Union Center | Grainger College of Engineering and the Department of Computer Science | Program in Jewish Culture & Society | Mortenson Center for International Library Programs | School of Information Sciences | University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign | Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program

MORE INFORMATION:
Questions? Please email: mortenson@illinois.edu
30th Anniversary: https://www.library.illinois.edu/mortenson/30th-anniversary/

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Clara Chu
Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor
Mortenson Center, UIUC Library
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Upcoming IRRT Webinar: Virtual International Connections: The Global Librarian Exchange Program

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:33:00 +0000

Virtual International Connections: The Global Librarian Exchange Program

Date: November 22, 2021

Time: 1 pm PST, 2 pm MST, 3 pm CST, 4 pm EST

Description: The Global Librarian Exchange Program, a Michigan State University Libraries microgrant initiative, is a virtual symposium which promotes professional exchange between academic librarians from abroad or from underrepresented communities and MSU librarians or staff. The goal of the GLEP is to enhance the exchange of ideas, expertise, and skills among librarians internationally and between communities, through mutual dialogue by a series of presentations and conversations.

Join us to learn about the benefits and challenges of the first iteration of the program, which was set to be in person, but had to be quickly redesigned to a virtual environment due to COVID-19 and was held from January-June 2021. This presentation will discuss the conceptualization of GLEP through the planning and implementation process, including recruitment and liaising with international colleagues, designing, and executing a speaker series with topics germane to global librarianship, while traversing international time zones and academic calendars, and will conclude with plans for future iterations of the program.

Presenters:

Andrea McMillan is the Chicanx and Latinx Studies Librarian at Michigan State University Libraries. Her work focuses on curating the César Chávez browsing collection, the Stephan O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Latino Collection, and the José F. Treviño Chicano/Latino Activism archival collection. She is Core Faculty in the Chicano & Latino Studies Program and serves as the faculty representative for the Chicanx/Latinx Association (ChiLA) of MSU.

Erik Ponder is the African and US Ethnic Studies Librarian at Michigan State University Libraries. His area of interests are southern African contemporary politics, history, and popular culture. He has traveled extensively throughout the African continent. In 1994, he was an international election observer for the historic democratic elections in South Africa. He has collected ephemera from Africa in response to the Obama presidency. More recently, he has collected Black Lives Matter protest posters in Washington DC. Erik has also worked extensively in the Digital Humanities combining his interests in Africa and digital scholarship.

Registration Link:

ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/...

Call for Submissions for International Leads December 2021 Issue

noreply@blogger.com (C.E. Riehman-Murphy) — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:46:00 +0000

CALL FOR FUTURE SUBMISSIONS: International Leads wants to hear from you!!

International Leads, the quarterly newsletter for IRRT, is accepting submissions for upcoming issues. Have you participated in an international conference lately? Ran an interesting program with an international flavor for your patrons? Visited a library in another country? We are looking for news of your activities to share with our international readership. Preference is given to authors who are also IRRT members (please indicate when submitting an article), but we encourage anyone with a story to share. We also especially encourage our members and friends from outside the United States to keep us informed of your engagements.

We also run regular columns on the following and ask that you contact us about information or with questions about any of these opportunities:

International partnership profiles - do you participate in a partnership with a library in another country? We’d love to profile your partnership and give inspiration to other partnerships or sister library programs.
International librarian profiles - are you a librarian outside of the United States? We’d love to hear about your work and your library.
IInternational library profile - have you visited or do you work in a library outside of the United States? We’d love to learn about that library and your association there.

Guidelines for writing can be found here: http://www.ala.org/rt/irrt/intlleads/authorinstructions/instructions

International Leads is released quarterly, in March, June, September, and December. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis with deadlines on the 15th of the previous month of issue..

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the editors at ala.intl.leads[at]gmail.com. We seek your input and are happy to discuss ideas or give guidance on writing. We particularly want to invite early career librarians to participate and submit their work.

Warm regards,

Julia Gelfand

Michele Fenton

Reysa Alenzuela

Co-editors

International Leads - the newsletter of the ALA International Relations Round Table

View current and previous issues of IL here: http://www.ala.org/irrt/intlleads/internationalleads

Instructions for authors: http://www.ala.org/irrt/intlleads/authorinstructions/instructions

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IRRT Papers and Projects Session -Call for Papers for 2026 Annual Conference

ALA 2023 Annual International Papers & Projects Session

Finding a New Normal: Library Policies and PracticesSaturday, June 24, 2023 11:00 - 12:00 CDTMcCormick Place, W179 A/B

ADVANCED CALL CONDITIONS

ALTERNATIVE PARTICIPATION METHOD OPTION DUE TO COVID-19

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Proposals for In-Person Conference Sessions

Proposals for Introduction Video Clips

PRESENTATION FORMAT

Format for Introduction Video Clips

Call for Nominations for IRRT Executive Board

9th Annual Sharjah International Library Conference

2022 IRRT Papers and Projects session

Upcoming LIS Talk: San Juan del Sur (Nicaragua) Biblioteca and the HJH Libraries for All Foundation

CIFNAL Speaker Series on June 10: "Preserving and Disseminating Medieval French Manuscript Heritage : Current Research Programs and Future Perspectives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France"

International Symposium - The Great Resignation era: attracting and retaining research library talent

Its on June 1st - ALA IRRT Webinar: Perspectives on International Digital Scholarship Collaborations... (Two presentations)

Introducing the IFLA North America Regional Division

IRRT Pre-Conference

ALA Member International Conference Participation Survey - Interest, Needs, and Barriers

Navigating International Conference Opportunities: advancing your career with tips, personal experiences, and global collaborations

Navigating International Conference Opportunities: advancing your career with tips, personal experiences, and global collaborations

Invitation to symposium: Contested Collections: Grappling With History and Forging Pathways for Repatriation

2022 Call for Photo Contribution - Best Practices from World Libraries Photo Gallery

2022 IRRT Papers and Projects session- Call for Proposals

Alternative Participation Method Option due to COVID-19

Submission Guidelines

IFLA's Upcoming Virtual Events

Upcoming IFLA Webinars

IRRT Call for proposals for Mission Enhancement Grant

Proposal process:

Call for Applications: Library and Information Science Student Voices: Global Peer-to-Peer Dialogue

How to apply for participation

Important dates

30th Anniversary Forum & 31st Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture | 8 November 2021

Upcoming IRRT Webinar: Virtual International Connections: The Global Librarian Exchange Program

Call for Submissions for International Leads December 2021 Issue

Finding a New Normal: Library Policies and Practices
Saturday, June 24, 2023
11:00 - 12:00 CDT
McCormick Place, W179 A/B

ALTERNATIVE PARTICIPATION METHOD OPTION
DUE TO COVID-19